[PLUG] apt problems

[Wil Cooley]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:03, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
> on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
> gets as far as ;

Posting a Red Hat question to a Debian isn't necessarily rude, but as
I'm sure you'll find from the flames you get, kinda stupid :)

> Fetched 1500kB in 27s (55.4kB/s)
> Reading Package Lists... 66%
> 
> and then hangs. This came on out of nowhere though possibly when I
> upgraded my kernel with up2date[ Redhat's app].

Have you done an 'rpm --rebuilddb' recently?  Are there any obvious lock
files in /var/lib/rpm?  You might find you'll need to manually dump and
rebuild the RPM database using the steps described by Jeff Johnson here:
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

I've got an issue right now with my own RPM database, but haven't
actually tried to rebuild it.

Wil
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